Friday, November 22, 2013

Every year for a couple of weekends there is a massive tour of artists' studios and galleries on the east side. Called E.A.S.T. (East Side Studio Tour) there are literally hundreds of artists to see showing work and demonstrating stuff. We went last Sunday (the tour goes again this weekend). We always visit with Jennifer Balkan who lives and works in French Place. Jennifer's been featured here before (in 2007, 2008 and 2011). We always get a friendly welcome, too, as she talks about her work and watches her son draw on the floor and tells everyone to hold down the fort while she fetches cream puffs from the house.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Every once in a while we have to have our building (the 360 Condominiums in the center here) appear on this blog. The roses blooming on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge (in one of the little 'gardens' maintained by volunteers) make for a nice postcard look, don't they?

Friday, November 8, 2013

The iconic Austin postcard mural is coming back to the wall of Roadhouse Relics on South First. We showed you some people getting their picture made there the other day in its deteriorated state and here it is over four years ago.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Linda and I were safely holed up in our condo Wednesday night and early Thursday morning during the worst of the rain and flooding. Our Facebook friend Jerry M. Withers took this shot the morning after in Northwest Park, one of the largest recreational spaces in north Austin. It looks like this picnic table was underwater at one point. After the massive flood of 1981 that took 12 lives and ruined a lot of homes, the city made Northwest Park into a quasi-holding pond. It paid off this year.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

The torrential rains that we had Wednesday night and Thursday morning made for a strong current in Lady Bird Lake. This group of ducks was doing its best to swim upstream. They weren't making much progress, but they were gamely trying.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Speaking of heights -- I took this sunrise photo of some construction cranes from our balcony the other day. Downtown Austin is a much different scene than it was when I was a kid back in the fifties -- and the building spree is continuing.

Today is theme day at City Daily Photo. Click here to see other interpretations of the theme of 'heights.'

Members of City Daily Photo

What is This?

A picture a day. Every picture taken within the confines of Austin, Texas, U.S.A. More or less. If it isn't a current shot, we will try to note when it was taken. We are part of the City Daily Photo family. Which has a facebook group. Here's the Official View of Austin.